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Just like news headlines, your research project topic is your first selling point. If media houses do not caption a football match between Nigeria and Ghana as 'Nigeria and Ghana goes to War again' they may continue enjoying being broke. In essence, your project topic and the material you produce should be captivating. It should have the magical power to draw people’s interest, and achieve good grades for you.
Your ability to come up with an interesting and good research project topic is your first step in building an 'A' in Research Methodology. Fantastic research papers in Nigeria do not fall from heaven. They come about as a result of serious brainstorming mixed with great fun. Anyways in my little experience as an independent researcher, I do not entirely agree that developing a project topic should be too tasking. I rather see it as fun. When you are about to write a research project, the first skill you should have in order to get the best out of your project is your fun skills-What interest you? Throughout your stay in lecture rooms from semester one to the end, you should be able to identify that very topic or course you enjoy so much.

If you are a final year student in Nigeria, and you are eager to develop an outstanding research topic you should at least follow these few steps.
1. Think of a research area that is of great interest to you.
2. Brainstorm on possible subjects, titles and topics that could come out of the research area.
3. Narrow down the topic to a specific issue.
4. Look for trending issues in Nigeria.
5. Ensure there is adequate material for the study.
6. Take a time out to structure your topic properly.
Get a Research Area
The first step in developing outstanding research topics is by identifying a research area that interests you. Successful researchers align their work to their research area or interest. By doing this, you become an expert in your chosen research area, and your previous research papers become foundation for future research studies. Final year students in Nigeria should identify what subjects they love talking about. Good examples of research areas are Taxation, Employee Performance, Work-Life Balance, Electricity Conductors etc. Visit http://nairaproject.com for more examples of research areas for your academic field.
Brainstorm for that Outstanding Topic
That unique and outstanding research topic is deep down in your brains only that you have not yet realized it. After identifying a suitable research area, pick up a paper or a book and try to formulate as many research-able topics as possible (the more the topics, the better your chances of getting a good one). The topics may look weird at first, but you may not realize how important this process will be to you until you try it. One benefit I have achieved with brainstorming is that it gives me the freedom to put down as many whack ideas as possible. The truth is, after some days these ideas become very useful, as they serve as foundations for formulating better research topics.
Narrow Down your Research Topic
Since you have been able to identify your research area and a research topic, you should now avoid broad topics. Broad topics are killer research topics. They make you stress your self for no good reasons. Your topic is probably broad if:
1. You find your research topic too confusing.
2. You seem to forget your topic frequently.
3. Your supervisor is not interested in your project work.
4. You seem to find conflicting materials on your topic.
5. You frequently feel dizzy or lazy whenever you see you research topic.
If all these happen to you then you need help. Breakdown the topic! If you are writing on the role of management in an organization, then you are not on point! Management can still be broken down to other variables, nouns, and subjects such as financial management, strategic management etc.
Look for Trending issues
One secret about outstanding researchers is that they are always solving current issues on ground. When new issues such as bank recapitalization in Nigeria and fuel subsidy arise, research topics and materials on them sells like pure water. When you present a research topic on a current issue that needs urgent attention in a country like Nigeria, your supervisor is happy with you. When defending it, you are assured of a good grade because, you are not only presenting a unique work, but you are also solving an urgent problem and building literature for that issue as well.
However, when developing research topics to suite trending issues in your country, you must be very careful. Writing on very current issues can get you hanging. Availability of materials to support your literature review-both theoretical and empirical review becomes a big challenge. Before formulating research topics on trending issues, one must first make sure there are studies already conducted. Students wishing to explore into newer research areas or topics with little or no materials are still encouraged to do so, but it is best done at a PhD level.

Source for Adequate Materials
Students wishing to get the best out of their research project are usually encourage to make sure that there is adequate literature concerning or relating to their study. However, you can still check out this great site http://nairaproject.com for over 10,000 sample research materials that can guide you throughout your research.

Structure your Research Topic
In structuring your research topic, follow the following steps:
1. Make sure your topic is not broad. Structure your topic to address a specific problem or answer a specific question. Do not write on every thing as you may get confused.
2. Identify variables in your research topic. Variables must be present in your topic. After brainstorming, arrange these variables in such a way your readers can easily understand what your study is all about. For more info read this article on research variables.
3. Avoid lengthy research topics.

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Creating Wealth Through Your Research Work

Writing a research project is not an easy venture, hence it should be rewarding right? People always argue that Nigeria is not a country where things like projects sell, after all who gives a crap about what you write? Even the organization and people used as case studies do not even care. Now such mentalities are are similar to those producing negatives in a dark room. you have to start thinking outside the box, and appreciate the value of your work.

Writing a good project should not only make you graduate from your school. The content alone should magnet a lot of money into your pocket. Lets come to think of it like this: you identified a problem in your society, chose a great caption or topic for it, and solved that problem through your findings and recommendations. Isn't that great enough to make your phone battery to die off because of bank alerts?

If you are still doubting about the possibilities of that small project work generating cash for you, here are some fun facts you must know:

There are over 140 million websites in this world.
Over 20 Million Nigerians access the Internet every day.
Out of this 20 Million, majority are students in Universities, Colleges of education, and Polytechnics searching for your topic. Why?
No idea on how to go about it.

Now assuming you had a sample of your project on the internet with your phone number or email address, who will be the boss now? Many students are looking for some sort of guide to help them develop their own research work, literature review and study background, but can not find some. So why not help them out and make some cool cash. Since our organizations do not buy our project work after researching for them, I think it is better we help distribute our materials to our brothers and sisters coming up. If you are a philanthropist, you can still give it out for free! its all counts down to how badly you need the money. In this article I am going to give out some tips on how you can make so much money with your project work, instead of being ideal at home waiting for government work.

Before you start making money online through your project work you must have the following:

Your well written project work in MS Word or PDF format.
A laptop or a good phone that can help you access the internet.
An active email address.
A good bank account (Western Union options for international clients)

Good to go? Once you have all these things listed above, you now start the actual work. To do the actual work follow these steps:

Open a different MS Word document
Copy your abstract or just your chapter 1 to this new document you just opened.
Put your contact details (like your phone number or email address) on the document.
Save your new document with title such as 'sample' to differentiate it from your full content.
Visit http://.com
Open an account with google, then create a new blog with your name or the title of your project work.
In the post section of your new blog, copy your abstract and chapter 1 and paste on blog interface.

These steps I mentioned above will give your project work adequate exposure to every search engine on the net, making it easy for students searching materials on Google, Yahoo, and Bing to easily locate your work. once they are redirected to your blog, they are glad they have seen a material or related material on their topic. Its gets more mouth watering if the content is good but just limited to only abstract or chapter 1. At this point they are ready to pay you for your material! isn't it easy?

Other methods are by joining large research communities and forums online. This is another fast and effective way of selling your research work. Every member can view your work as well as search engines. Other platforms that can help you make some cool cash from your work are:

http://academia.edu
http://nairaproject.com
http://ezinearticles.com

Just visit these great sites. Create an account and upload your samples. Your life may never remain the same again. Remember many organizations and people are looking for your topic.You have not just realized that yet!

Making Awesome Presentations: Tips and Tricks For Project Defence

Just imagine a project defence room where you are presenting your research work in such a fabulous way, and your panel members just can’t stop nodding, gazing at you with their mouths wide open and clapping non-stop for you…It is just an imagination, so wake up! Put more work to it by reading this article, apply it and pray your panel members do not turn your project defence to project attack!
Project defence has come to stay, and the only way to graduate in Nigerian universities is to at least defend what you have written (or copied and paste) in a convincing manner. Gone are the days when you could just copy and paste an article from the internet and dump for your school. Our Nigerian school system is changing from dumping grounds to speech oriented institutions, which means that you must be good at presentations in order to scale through. At times students confuse themselves with content of their work. The truth is that it is better to be more confident with a poor content, than to be un-able to defend an excellent research work.
In this article, I am going to give out some useful tips and tricks on how you can have an awesome project defence and presentation. In order to make reading this article more pleasurable, I am going to give tips on how what to do before the defence day, on the defence day, and inside the defence room. So enjoy!

TIPS TO APPLY BEFORE YOUR DEFENCE DAY
First before your project defence, you must ensure you have a romantic relationship with your project topic and the whole content. When I say ‘romantic relationship’, I mean your research topic or research thesis must be of great interest to you. If your topic is too difficult or it was imposed on you by your project supervisor, you better start loving the topic or better still; look for a way to get it changed for you. In my little experience, I have discovered that students who hate their topics usually have problems flowing in the defence room, and it can mean bad for you. One trick to choose a nice research topic is by looking for subjects that you love talking about. If you’re a car freak, you should be considering topics like ‘the impact of official cars on the employee productivity’. You would be amazed how this simple trick will go a long way in helping you.

Second, do adequate research on your topic. Before defending or presenting your project, you should source for similar materials on your topic. Focus on how the problem was identified and addressed. Do not dream of having an awesome presentation if you do not know common terminologies associated with your topic. Identify your keywords, variables, background of the study, history of the study and all the variables before your defence date. If you writing on ‘employee motivation and its impact on productivity, you should be able to know your two variables-‘employee motivation’ and ‘productivity’.

Third, know your motivation for the study or research. Most final year students in Nigeria defending their projects do not perform well because, they fail to identify their motives for the study. The motivation for your study is probably the first answer to numerous questions you may be asked in the defence room. Before a research is undertaken, there is usually a problem to solve. The desire to solve that problem becomes your motivation for the study. Please do not use money, or the need to graduate as motivations for your study. Motivation for the study is best applied in questions like ‘why undertake this study’? ‘Tell us about your work’?

Fourth, know your strength as well as your weaknesses. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will help you prepare a backup plan in case the direction of the defence changed in an unfavourable way.
Fifth, discuss with friends. Make your friends your panel members, and defend in front of the, tell them to criticize and ask numerous questions. With this little training you will be tuning your mind set for what a defence room will look like. You can also seek professional help.

ON THE DAY OF DEFENCE
On the day of defence, a lot of students panic and some may even forget their project topics. Just apply the following tricks and tips and you will be just fine!
First, rehearse with friends again. Look for people to discuss your project with all over again. This will help you remember your key points.
Second, develop good self esteem and confidence. Before you enter the defence room, make use of some good self esteem! Think well about your self, and have in mind that these professors and senior lecturers you are going to face are human beings that do not know every thing. So be in control. See yourself as someone going to lecture a bunch of people that do not know much. Remember 90% of your fears cannot be seen at first, unless you start showing it.

IN THE DEFENCE ROOM
· Knock first before you enter.
· Great the panel members with lots of smile
· Wait for your first question
· Answer with great confidence. While answering your questions look straight into the eyes of your panel members, and never be rude. All is well!

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